Corvac received two other citations for failing to illuminate exit signs or post warning signs for electrical hazards. Priority Personnel, a staffing agency that provides temporary workers for Corvac, was cited for two serious violations for failing to develop and implement a hearing conservation program and reduce or eliminate exposure to excessive heat. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the July 2015 inspection at the Corvac Composites facility in San Marcos as the result of a complaint.

Quote: "All workers, whether full-time or temporary, deserve a safe workplace," said R. Casey Perkins, OSHA's area director in Austin. "Heat and noise aren't just nuisances - at excessive levels they can cause serious, irreparable, or even fatal, harm to workers, and employers are required to provide protection."

Information: Corvac Composites is headquartered in Kentwood, Michigan, and Priority Personnel is headquartered in San Marcos, Texas. Both companies have 15 business days from receipt of their citations to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director, or contest the citations and penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

To ask questions; obtain compliance assistance; file a complaint or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Austin Area Office at 512-374-0271. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.